Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (toronto)
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 129678231RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,901,914) as filed with the CRA.
Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (toronto) is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $7.8M in revenue and $7.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from government, 9% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $819K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 77% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 55 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (PARC) is a comprehensive multi-service agency dedicated to addressing a variety of critical issues including poverty mental health addiction homelessness and food security among our members. Our extensive range of programs includes a daily drop-in program one-on-one case management peer worker accompaniment supportive housing housing access collaborative care employment assistance housing access support financial trustee services a community food program a multitude of special events and outings and the operation of our social enterprise. *Ou…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.8M | $7.9M | $7M | $56K | — | $1M |
| 2023 | $7.3M | $7.4M | $6.7M | $57K | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $6.9M | $7.1M | $6.3M | $73K | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $7.3M | $7.1M | $6.4M | $53K | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $5.8M | $5.6M | $5M | $77K | — | $1.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $819K from 18 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$244K
- The Atkinson Charitable Foundation$119K
- Canadahelps Canadon$110K
- Canadahelps Canadon$110K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$75K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- Vancity Community Foundation$25K
- The Charity Tree$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- Right To Food$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$10K
- Toronto Foundation$4,215
- United Way of Greater Toronto$3,284
- Vancouver Foundation$1,350
- ST Martin-In-The-Fields Angligan Church$1,000
- Socks 4 Souls Canada Inc.$692
- Socks 4 Souls Canada Inc.$673
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$291
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions55
- Total compensation, all staff$4.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Peter Martin (director); Kelyang Tenzin (director); Bruce Voogd (co-chair); Richard Edwards (director); Beryl-Ann Mark (director); Geetha Rahupathy (director); Silvia Samsa (director); Laura Lesser (director); Hazel Jackson (director); Erin Stevens (director); Erin Stevens (treasurer); Shannon Hirsch (secretary); Andrea Hatala (director); Corey Piercey (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (toronto)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129678231RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.